Regional Cancer Centre, Thiruvananthapuram
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| Type | Cancer Care And Research center |
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| Established | 1981 |
| Director | Dr. Paul Sebastian, MS |
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Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India 8°31′13″N 76°55′28″E / 8.52014760°N 76.92451299°ECoordinates: 8°31′13″N 76°55′28″E / 8.52014760°N 76.92451299°E |
| Nickname | RCC |
| Website | http://rcctvm.gov.in/ |
The Regional Cancer Centre (RCC) at Thiruvananthapuram is a cancer care hospital and research centre. RCC was established in 1981 by the government of Kerala and the government of India. It is located in the Thiruvananthapuram Medical College campus. It was established as an expansion of the Radiation Therapy / Radiotherapy department of Medical College Trivandrum. It is a tertiary care center for the managements of all types of cancer. The clinics are mainly on Hematology, Lymphoreticular, soft tissue, bone, head and neck, breast/CNS, gynaec/urinary, chest, gastro, paediatric oncology and thyroid.
The RCC was established in 1981 as one among six such centres (currently 26) in India. During the formation period the state government transferred a few departments of the Medical College,Thiruvananathapuram, which were primarily concerned with cancer care to the Regional Cancer Centre.
The RCC is an autonomous scientific institution sponsored jointly by the government of Kerala and the government of India. It has been designated as a Science and Technology Centre in the health sector by the state government.The first Community Oncology division in India was established in RCC, Thiruvananthapuram, in 1985.
The Hospital Based Cancer Registry (HBCR), Trivandrum, was established at the Regional Cancer Centre in 1982 as part of the National Cancer Registry Programme of the Indian Council of Medical.Research. The HBCR has been collecting information on cancer patients reporting to the RCC, Medical College Hospital, SAT hospital for Women and Children and Dental College, Trivandrum from 1 January 1982.
The Centre has pioneered schemes to help less privileged socio-economic groups. In 1986 the ‘Cancer Care for Life’ (CCL) scheme was launched to generate a welfare fund for cancer patients. A person who invested Rs.101 (about US $6 at the time) in the scheme just once in their life gets treatment, travel and other expenses during the time of treatment in case they develop cancer. Consequent upon the winding up of the CCL scheme of Rs.101/- per policy holder, a new CCL project of Rs.500/- per policy was launched during 1993. at present the Kerala government provides free treatment to poor patients of Kerala origin, so the CCL scheme stopped.
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